The Washington Wizards received good news yesterday when they learnt that Michael Jordan didn't suffer any damage to his surgically repaired right knee after a clash with Pacers superstar Reggie Miller Tuesday night, but the All-Star is questionable for the teams' encounter with the Houston Rockets tonight.
Jordan missed yesterday's practice with a deep thigh bruise that left him stiff, and if he does miss the game with the Rockets it will be his first missed game of the season. The Wizards are currently in a three-way battle for the eighth playoff spot with the Orlando Magic and the New York Knicks - the Wizards being on the outer meaning every game is crucial.
The game, however, will be a season debut for center Jahidi White, who will make his comeback despite not being 100% against man-mountain Yao Ming.
"I just expect to go out and play hard," said White. "Whatever I can do, whatever they ask me to do, whatever minutes they can give me. I'll accept anything. I'm just happy to be back in a uniform."
Jordan has been averaging 33 points per game over the past three games and his play down the stretch has seen the Wizards more dependant on him than they would have liked, especially with fellow starter Larry Hughes also out injured, writes Steve Wyche of the Washington Post. Leading scorer Jerry Stackhouse has also struggled since missing five games with groin problems.
"We can ill afford to lose Michael right now at this stretch," Wizards Coach Doug Collins said.
Jordan began treatment on the leg immediately after the game against the Pacers, and the Wizards are hoping that this makes all the difference.
"You never know how a muscle is going to respond, how long a time it's going to take to heal," Collins said. "Let's hope that with [yesterday's] rest and treatment and then again [today] he will be able to go."
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Michael and Reggie.
Reggie and Michael.
Was there a memo? Is it 1998 all over again?
There was Michael Jordan, backing down defenders, hitting that vintage fall-away jumper from every conceivable angle. There was Reggie Miller, one of the few guys who showed up for the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night, demanding the basketball in the fourth quarter and knocking down those lethal 3-pointers.
Did we miss something? Was it Retro Night at Conseco Fieldhouse?
This was supposed to be a night to honor Jordan. As the game wore on, though, it turned into a night to marvel at two great players, two transcendent athletes who have brought out the excellence in one another for so many years.
One is 40 years old. One is 37 years old. And yet, in this, a dog-day regular-season game late in February when younger players are wearing down, Jordan and Miller embraced the moment and somehow raised an otherwise hideous game into something resembling compelling theater.
Too old? Too diminished?
Not Michael. Not Reggie. Not when there are still games to be won, still memories to be made.
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According to an article in the Washington Post forward-center Etan Thomas could be lost for the season after a fracture was discovered in the orbital bone in his left eye.
"Etan is going to a see a doctor next week, and if the double vision has gone away then he will be out just two weeks," coach Doug Collins said. "If not he would likely have surgery and then be out for at least six weeks."
It is believed that Thomas will soon be placed on the injured reserve while Jahidi White, who is still no where near 100% after offseason knee surgery, is expected to be activated and suit up. White has yet to play this season.
"I don't know how effective Jahidi will be," Collins said, "but I know he wants to play. We'll just have to see."
"First Jared and now Etan. And of course Jahidi for most of the season," Collins said. "It's really disappointing."
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Wizards Feb 2003 Archive
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Associated Press | Feb 25, 2003
Michael Jordan scored 25 points and Tyronn Lue added 18 points and 11 assists as the Washington Wizards beat the Indiana Pacers 83-78 Tuesday night.
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| Feb 25, 2003
As the season winds down towards the business end each game is becoming more and more important.
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washington post | Feb 22, 2003
Steve Wyche of the Washington Post reports: Michael Jordan made history again last night.
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washington post | Feb 20, 2003
Steve Wyche of the Washington Post reports: Yesterday, trade talks increased but don't expect much from the Washington Wizards before today's 3 p.
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washington post | Feb 17, 2003
Josh Barr of the Washington Post reports: A massive snowstorm that is pounding the northeast has caused an NBA game to be postponed.
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washington times | Feb 16, 2003
John Mitchell of the Washington Times reports: The Washington Wizards are coming off of one of their worst losses of the season, aa 109-77 loss at Utah, they might be looking at a deal but it's unlikely two of their young bigman will be sent packing.
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Washington Post | Feb 15, 2003
Michael Jordan's last game in Utah before tonight was, at the time, a fitting finish that left an indelible memory to basketball fans: the Shot, the Championship, the End.
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Deseret News | Feb 15, 2003
It rarely ends perfectly.
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Deseret News | Feb 15, 2003
During most of his nine seasons with the Utah Jazz, Bryon Russell was one of the team's more popular players.
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Deseret News | Feb 15, 2003
On what should have been a special night for a special player, the Washington Wizards were especially horrible.
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Standard-Examiner | Feb 15, 2003
Injured Spanish guard Raul Lopez was just 12 years old when the Dream Team came to Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics, but he remembers the stir the American stars caused.
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Standard-Examiner | Feb 15, 2003
This was certainly not the way Michael Jordan wanted to be remembered in what was likely his last basketball game at the Delta Center.
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Standard-Examiner | Feb 15, 2003
Jerry Sloan was subdued, Bryon Russell was invisible and Michael Jordan scored 11 of the most irrelevant points of his career.
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Standard-Examiner | Feb 15, 2003
Michael Jordan's last game at the Delta Center -- assuming he doesn't decide to come out of retirement again -- turned into an exercise in futility for both he and his Washington Wizards teammates.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Feb 15, 2003
Former Jazzman Bryon Russell scored three points in his first game at the Delta Center since signing with Washington.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Feb 15, 2003
Calbert Cheaney was at the far end of the Delta Center court Friday night when Jerry Sloan hollered and beckoned him over to the bench, his scowl tipping off his mood.
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Washington Post | Feb 14, 2003
Washington Wizards leading scorer Jerry Stackhouse, who has missed the past four games with a pulled left groin, caught a red-eye flight back to Washington tonight to undergo an MRI exam.
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Standard-Examiner | Feb 14, 2003
Tonight's Jazz-Wizards game at the Delta Center will have a seems-like-old-times flavor to it.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Feb 14, 2003
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Salt Lake Tribune | Feb 14, 2003
It's like a family reunion, with all the familiar faces coming together once again.
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| Feb 13, 2003
Steve Wyche of the Washington Post reports: Michael Jordan did something last night that he hadn't done since the 91-92 season.
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washington post | Feb 12, 2003
Steve Wyche of the Washington Post reports: Last nigh, the Washington Wizards opened up their three game, West Coast trip without the services of swingman Jerry Stackhouse (pulled left groin).
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| Feb 10, 2003
After all the contraversy surrounding his reluctance to give up his starting role Vince Carter did exactly that yesterday, deferring to Michael Jordan and allowing the superstar to be a starter in his last ever All-Star game.
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| Feb 9, 2003
Nothing can change Michael Jordan's mind about coming back and playing one more season.
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| Feb 8, 2003
According to the Orlando Sentinel Magic forward Tracy McGrady still has not given up on his quest to get superstar Michael Jordan into the starting lineup of tomorrow's All-Star game in Atlanta.
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| Feb 8, 2003
Allen Iverson failed to attend the mandatory media session for the All-Star weekend for the second straight year according to Ashley McGeachy Fox of the Philadelphia Inquirer, this year the official reason given was illness.
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| Feb 8, 2003
Vince Carter is without a doubt one of the most exciting players in the NBA, and keeping this in mind it is little wonder that the Toronto superstar was voted into a starting role for the All-Star game this Sunday.
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| Feb 7, 2003
Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls and Isiah Thomas with the Detroit Pistons were vivid enemies back in the late eighties as both fought for NBA supremecy, so as Jordan now enters his final All-Star game in his career it is ironic that his head coach will be none other than Thomas, who is set to debut at the helm.
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| Feb 5, 2003
Charles Oakley told Steve Wyche of the Washington Post that he has no plans to retire from the NBA after this season, his 17th, but this does not necessarily mean he'll be suiting up next year either.
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| Feb 4, 2003
The NBA today announced that singer Mariah Carey will be on hand to perform a special tribute to superstar Michael Jordan at the 2003 All Star Game, according to nba.
